# ABOUT THIS SITE this is amateur net philosopher robert what's example playthrough of 'republic of bob' and your source for '#rob' related news ideas through play; love is always the message  forget about 'an imaginary alternative internet-as-pastime' for now you're not arrived as such but are already here; take a slow look around and check out the view to the western border lies the 'desert mirage network luxe' orbital data center the air is fresh and quietly alive with rare magic ![[republic-of-bob-background-(nick-rickert-dmOd1T9gdj0-unsplash).jpg|600]] # site notes an overgrowing digital garden / cluttered magpie's nest - here ye shall find rest and oddly interesting vaguely artistic artefacts **+** the "daily scene journal" folder to the left holds regular updates **+** "republic field snapshots" is a informal codex of 'scene' observations **+** "current rnd projects" is self explanatory and the "changelog" file lists recent file changes **+** site text in lowercase to engage with notions of linearity authorship and professionalism; without full stop paragraphs to suggest opening out into desert silence. forget the fomo - no need to read everything so feel free to casually skip around at will. text also now with fewer hyperlinks to reduce cognitive load encourage free-form discovery & extrapolate from incomplete information **+** [[a critique about licencing and copyright]] # old reviews > fascinating rambling deranged > ~ single day 'reddit effect' review > (..) the images reveal the surrounding voidspace that always lingers just out-of-sight beyond the veil of vidyagarm worlds. the way he frames this emptiness is often striking > ~ chris priestman beyond the veil of counterstrike (kill screen) > a mix between performance and architectural critique this is in-game photography documentation at its best. it also indicates a possible way for critics artists and game developers to engage in a fruitful collaboration > ~ matteo bittanti via garmescenes > also this guy who hates andy (warhol) has a clever interesting website > the 20th century salutes ir > ~ mondo 2000 (ru sirius) via twitter # rob's goals and motivation i've been slowly dying of terminal boredom for some years now; i need to hook up with fellow artistic oddballs and have intense strange fun - 'find my tribe' i must also rapidly start earning the tiresome filthiness of money(tm) - mostly in order to stop renting and buy a decent well insulated house whatever this is i'm performing here however isn't exactly mainstream market friendly yet i at least partially understand it's not what you can grab it's what you can give # a note on movement _as_ the principle stasis is undeath: lively up yourselves dear researchers! this site / the republic - strongly recommends viewing it's rich strange virtual landscape while moving **+** that is rather than merely / passively sit or slouch-stand explore and study while moving & flowing dynamically with one's full relaxed expansive attention **+** mobilize your full mobility potential - basically _do whatever you have to_ in order to move dat sweet ass for movement's sake; absorb all your vital daily 'movement vitamins' and retune yourself back into the felt presence of the immediate experience **+** this is in accordance with the playful 'markour' holistic bodymind movement principle as currently under rnd - largely rsi-bound myself (directly due to literal socioeconomic-physical _stasis_ and the often unacknowledged intense labor demands of art-work) # robert what contact details i'm robert what a uk based amateur internet philosopher [[on hiring robert what |currently available for hire]] a biopsychic energy photo: ![[researcher-robert-what.jpg|379]] for corrections improvements suggestions for more odd r&d andor to collaborate projects (yours or mine) reach out today and say hi; polite intelligence reciprocated **+** email: robertwhat (at) proton (dot) me **+** bluesky social media: https://bsky.app/profile/robertwhat.bsky.social\ **+** other obsidian vaults: https://vaults.obsidian-community.com/ > i am diogenes the dog; i nuzzle the kind bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels > ~ [[diogenes of sinope]] # shoutouts abc: always and forever my darling c0de blue: where art thou brother? what's the l8est? pete from virgina: yo pete i been takin' care of my shoes big hair: call me you weird smelly goth that cool short haired college student who changed their name half way through the course (everyone thought they were 'weird' except me) and became my good friend: we'll meet again someday riot gurrl === # republic of bob manifesto a diversity and inclusion statement welcome all - as one! as an informal absurdist immaterial panpsychic nondual zen philosophy project of and for marginalized voices and based in the collective imagination 'republic of bob' is open to everyone who supports and champions equality racial justice and joyful spiritual anarchy; wilful ignorance hatred and professional misery cannot survive within it's weird possibility field of chaotic-good effect (bosses cops kings and ai exist without imagination and are unable to understand it.) as a safe shared communal cognitive superspace of pre-occupied indigenous futurism (not western non whiteness non techno-utopian anti-capitalist and anti-colonial) 'republic of bob' is inclusive welcoming and representative of the beautiful organic spectrum of gender expression sexuality physical ability appearance neurological diversity and ethnicity. '#rob' actively promotes cool social creativity and a positive (defiant) attitude - a community of resilience resistance and empowerment rooted in representations of a slow diasporic sensuality that glows with a slow-paced phase-shifting paracosmic ambience of mystical biopsychedelic hyperalien strangeness om mani padme hum ![[mahakala.png|396]] # recommended reading * desert solitaire - edward abbey * the search - geoff dyer // republic of bob